Awards & Winners

T. A. Goudge

Date of Birth 19-January-1910
Place of Birth Halifax
(Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Thomas Anderson Goudge
Profession Philosopher, Author, Professor
Thomas Anderson Goudge M.A., Ph.D, FRSC was a Canadian university professor. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, son of Thomas Norman and Effie Goudge. He graduated from the Halifax Academy in 1927, and studied for a B.A. in 1931 and an MA in 1932 from Dalhousie University. He obtained his Ph. D from the University of Toronto in 1937 after having briefly studied from 1936-37 at Harvard University. He married Helen Beryl Christilaw in Blind River, Ontario, on June 23, 1936 and had one son, the jurist Stephen T. Goudge and five grandchildren, Jennifer, Suzanne, Daniel, Timothy and Amy. He became an interim lecturer on philosophy at Waterloo College in 1934 and later served as a tutor, fellow and then lecturer in philosophy at Queen's University from 1935-1938. He lectured in philosophy at Toronto after that, becoming an assistant professor in 1940, an associate professor in 1945 and a full professor in 1949. He also served on the editorial committee of the University of Toronto Quarterly from 1951 on, serving as acting editor in 1955. In 1963, he became Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Toronto.

Awards by T. A. Goudge

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1961


Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
Honored for : The Ascent of Life

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction The Ascent of Life